The boys of winter : life and death in the U.S. ski troops during the Second World War /
The Boys of Winter tells the true story of three young American ski champions and their brutal, heroic, and fateful transformation from athletes to infantrymen with the 10th Mountain Division. Charles J. Sanders's fast-paced narrative draws on dozens of interviews and extensive research to trac...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Boulder :
University Press of Colorado,
©2005.
©2005 |
Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | The Boys of Winter tells the true story of three young American ski champions and their brutal, heroic, and fateful transformation from athletes to infantrymen with the 10th Mountain Division. Charles J. Sanders's fast-paced narrative draws on dozens of interviews and extensive research to trace these boys' lives from childhood to championships and from training at Mount Rainier and in the Colorado Rockies to battles against the Nazis. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource : illustrations, maps |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781457110542 1457110547 9781457109461 1457109468 9781607320449 1607320444 9780870817830 0870817833 0870818236 9780870818233 |